Findings about the chemical makeup of cave systems can teach us about life in places humans have yet to reach.

Astrobiologist Joshua Sebree of the University of Northern Iowa suggests that South Dakota's Wind Cave exhibits chemical ...

Inside Wind Cave the scientists found that chemicals fossilised within the rocks shine in brilliant hues of pink, blue, and ...

Biofluorescence is widespread in birds-of-paradise, a group of tropical birds famous for their spectacular courtship dances.

Deep below the Earth’s surface, rock and mineral formations lay hidden with a secret brilliance. Under a black light, the chemicals fossilized within shine in brilliant hues of pink, blue and green.

Bioluminescent luciferase enzymes have historically been too dim to use as probes in living tissue. But recent advances have ...

Fluorescent ... under the black light, certain areas of the caves seemed to transform into something otherworldly as portions of the surrounding rocks shone in different colors.

Read an ACS press release about this research: Fluorescent caves could explain how life ... The calcite in these formations fluoresces under black light. That fluorescence changes color depending on ...

Scientists are trying to understand how the caves formed and how life is supported in extreme environments. The post ...

In vertebrate retinas, specialized photoreceptors responsible for color vision (cone cells) arrange themselves in patterns ...